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Justin Sheehy <justin@linus.mitre.org> writes:

> Protecting all sorts of code from C-g would make it very difficult
> for users to deal with a situation that actually hung their emacs.

The right thing would be not to disable C-g in critical sections, but
to use unwind-protects to perform the correct cleanup.

(For those who didn't get it: the above paragraph is a joke.  It would 
be near impossible to trap everything that might possibly be screwed
up with a C-g with the correct unwind-protect, not to mention testing
all of that.)